STOCKTON – Officers confiscated a handgun when they arrested a driver who attempted to flee after rear-ending an unmarked police car today in south Stockton, authorities said.

A man driving a black Honda Accord rear-ended officers assigned to the regional auto-theft task force shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard just east of South Center Street, police said. A short pursuit ended when the suspect stopped on South American Street near East Eighth Street.

Officers found a silver semiautomatic handgun in the suspect's waistband, police said. The man was arrested on suspicion of gun possession and hit-and-run, authorities said. There were no injuries reported, but there was minor damage to the unmarked police car and a patrol car that crashed through a chain-link fence in front of a residence on South American Street.

Read Saturday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Jason Anderson.